Selection Policy

After collecting input and recommendations from various sources, the professional library media specialist will be responsible for identifying, ordering, and organizing materials. When purchasing materials, consideration will be given to existing collections in order to prevent unnecessary duplication. Gift to the library shall meet the same selection standards as other instructional media. The following criteria shall be used when selecting instructional media.

Instructional media shall be:

1. Consistent with the educational goals of the district.

2. Chosen to enrich and support the curriculum.

3. Selected with consideration of: presentation, physical format, educational significance, readability, authenticity, artistic quality and/or literary style, factual content, and objectivity.

4. Appropriate for the age, emotional development, varied interests, and abilities of students.

5. Maintained to provide a balanced collection representative of various viewpoints, including controversial issues.

6. Provide materials representative of the contributions to our American heritage from the many religious, ethnic and cultural groups.

7. Evaluated in the entirety, taking into account the purpose of the material rather than isolated expressions or incidents.

8. Use existing selection criteria for the selection of all kinds of materials such as films, videos, discs, tapes, computer software, books.